346 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. 
August 25 and 26.—No change. 
ze August 27.—Pig No 2 appears to be slightly indisposed. Pig No. 3 apparently 
ealthy. 
ages 28.—Both seem to be healthy; eat well. 
August 29.—Pig No. 2 not quite as lively as a healthy pig; does not seem to have 
very good appetite. Pig No 3 shows no symptons of disease. Temperature of pig No. 
2, 105.4° F., and of No. 3, 1044° F. Both pigs struggled very much while being ex- 
amined. 
August 30.—Pig No. 2 not very lively, and shows a tendency to lie down; does not 
eat as well as formerly ; temperature, 10439 F. At feeding time in the evening it did 
not arise, nor did it seem to care for its food. Pig No. 3 apparently all right. 
August 31.—Pig No. 2 shows plain symptoms of sickness; arches its back, and moves 
with short undecided steps. Pig Ne. 3 appears to be less lively. 
September 1.—Both pigs, Nos. 2 and 3, show plain symptoms of swine-plague. 
September 2.—Pig No. 3 seems to be worse than pig No. 2. In afternoon the eyes of 
pig No. 3 appeared congested, and the conjunctiva infiltrated with blood. Appetite 
of both animals rather poor. Both are thirsty. 
September 3.—Pigs Nos. 2 and 3 do not eat anything; are evidently very sick; show 
great indifference to surroundings, and do not like to come out of their corner. Both 
are very weak, and look as if they suffer from pressure upon the brain. 
September 4.—Pigs Nos. 2 and 3 have not touched any food; they huddle together in 
their corner, lie down, and will not get up unless compelled to do so. Both show in- 
creasing muscular weakness and emaciation. At 6.30 o’clock p. m. pig No. 2 was 
removed to pen No. 1. (See account of pig No. 1.) | 
September 5.—Pig No. 2 (now in pen No. 1) eats nothing; has plain symptoms of 
pneumonia. Pig No. 3 (in pen No. 2) is getting very weak; at 7 o’clock p. m. is 
Tying flat, and in a dying condition. . 
September 6.—Pig No. 2 Gin pen No. 1) very sick. Pig No. 3 (in pen No. 2) dead in 
the morning, with well-marked rigor mortis. 
Posi-mortem examination.—Skin normal; lymphatic glands enlarged; left lobe of 
lungs partially hepatized; right lobe the same, but hepatization more extensive; no 
serum in thoracic cavity; about two drachms in pericardium; heart normal; spleen 
enlarged; partially coalesced with peritoneum of abdominal wall, which shows traces 
of inflammation; some small ulcerous tumors on surface of spleen, and adhesion be- 
tween the latter and the colon; mesenteric glands considerably enlarged; morbid 
growths or ulcerous tumors, and a few worms (trichocephalus crenatus), the latter 
partially embedded in the smaller czcal mucous membrane in cecum; blood extrav- 
asations, and capillary congestion in mucous membrane of cecum, colon, ilium, and 
stomach; liver somewhat enlarged; kidneys normal. The blood, examined under the 
microscope, contained, besides red blood-corpuscles with ragged, irregular or star- 
shaped outlines, a few white blood-corpuscles (from one to five in the field), numerous 
bacillus-germs in various stages of development, and a few developed bacilli suis. 
Pig No. 2 died at 6 o’clock p.m. (See account of pig No. 1.) 
Post-mortem examination.—Skin normal; lungs partially hepatized; hepatization 
most marked in anterior lobes; small quantity of serum in pericardium; liver enlarged; 
one nematoid in choledochns; abdominal cavity free from serum ; ecchymoses on the 
external surface of colon and cecum; capillary hyperemia and swelling in cecal 
mucous membrane; several small ulcerous tumors in cecum, especially near the ilio- 
excal valve; swelling, capillary congestion, and extrayasations of blood in mucous 
membrane of colon and ilium; kidneys normal; bladder empty ; mucous membrane 
of stomach similar in appearance to that of cecum, colon, and ilium. 
Account of pigs Nos. 5 and 6.—Pigs Nos. 5 and 6, which arrived, as has been stated 
before, August 22, at 1 o’clock p. m., were put in pen No. 3, and at 1.30 o’clock p. m. 
the colon, the heart, and a piece of the diseased lings of pig No. 4 were given to them. 
They, however, touched neither colon, heart, nor piece of lung. 
August 23.—Both pigs, Nos. 5 and 6, in good health, and eat their food greedily, but 
have not touched the colon, heart, and piece of lung. The colon, having become very 
putrid, had to be removed; heart and piece of lung were thrown into the feed-trough. 
August 24.—Both pigs healthy. Heart and piece of lung have disappeared, but 
whether they have been consumed by the pigs or by rats I am not able to decide. 
August 25.—Both pigs healthy; have good appetite, and eat greedily. 
August 26 and 27.—The same. ; 
August 28.—The same. August 28th was a very hot day, but a severe thunder-storm 
in the afternoon effected a sudden cooling of the atmosphere. 
August 29.—Both pigs, Nos. 5 and 6, seem to have a slight catarrah, probably in 
consequence of the sudden reduction of temperature and change of weather. Both 
cough some. 
August 30.—Both pigs, to all appearances, all right, except that occasionally a slight 
cough can be heard. Both have first-rate appetites. 
August 31.—Both pigs apparently in perfect health; appetite good. 
